I have been utilizing the DJI Mic 2 because it got here out and it has by no means let me down. I primarily use it with my Lumix S5II and Osmo Pocket 3, however these days I’ve discovered myself capturing extra regularly with my telephone.
You may, in fact, use the Mic 2 (and newer fashions) together with your telephone, however the options aren’t precisely very best. There are two methods to take action: you may both join on to the telephone over Bluetooth or you should utilize the on-camera receiver related to your telephone’s USB port.
Connecting through Bluetooth is handy, however the high quality is terrible. Gadgets just like the Pocket 3 and DJI Osmo Motion 6 can join instantly with no receiver and preserve high quality, however with a telephone the distinction is stark.
Utilizing the on-camera receiver with a telephone works effectively, however the type issue is much from very best. It is designed with mirrorless cameras in thoughts, so it has a cold-shoe mount and it is comparatively cumbersome.
It comes with a clip-in USB-C adapter, which suggests it could actually instantly connect with your telephone, nevertheless it stands out in a bizarre approach – and I am at all times apprehensive that it is going to get knocked out.
There are different annoyances, too. I am unable to cost my telephone with the receiver connected, as an example, because it would not cross energy via. Conversely, I’ve to recollect to cost the receiver itself and have been caught out by that greater than as soon as.
For these causes, when capturing with a telephone, I virtually at all times file internally on the DJI Mic 2 and sync the clips in publish. That’s, till I picked up the Cell Receiver.
What’s it and what does it do?
The DJI Mic Collection Cell Receiver is a tiny model of the on-camera receiver that is designed particularly to work effectively with telephones. It is solely 9mm thick (about the identical as most telephones), it weighs subsequent to nothing and it solely stands out from the bottom of the telephone by simply over a centimeter.
Already that is an enormous benefit over the standard receiver, nevertheless it will get higher. The Cell Receiver is powered by the telephone, so that you by no means want to fret about charging it – and it helps pass-through USB-C charging, so you may preserve your telephone topped up throughout lengthy shoots.
The icing on the cake is that it helps the DJI Mic 2, Mic Mini and Mic 3, and you’ll pair any two directly. I personal each the Mic Mini and Mic 2, and I’ve by no means been ready to make use of them on the identical time as a result of they use totally different receivers – however the Cell Receiver modifications that.
For readability, DJI units just like the Motion 6 and Pocket 3 can work with each directly, however not the on-camera receiver, in order that solely applies to mirrorless cameras and telephones.
I used to be happy to be taught that the Cell Receiver additionally works effectively with motion cameras. I nonetheless use the DJI Motion 2 fairly often, which got here out earlier than the DJI Mic collection, and may’t pair with Mics as newer DJI cameras can. Once I connected the Cell Receiver to my growing older mini digicam, it simply labored.
How do you modify the settings?
Now, you might need seen that the Cell Receiver lacks the touchscreen of the full-sized receiver. So, how do you modify your settings? Fortunately, it is fairly simple.
The Cell Receiver has a bodily change to vary from noise-cancelling off to low or excessive, however in any other case settings are adjusted utilizing the DJI Osmo app. You entry the receiver in the very same approach that you just’d connect with a DJI digicam, after which you can tweak all of the settings.
So far as I can inform, you may modify all the identical issues within the app as you’ll with the touchscreen interface. The choices vary from easy achieve adjustment as to if or not the LED indicator activates, and lots extra apart from.
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Who should purchase one?
You probably have a DJI Mic 2, 3 or Mini (it would not work with the unique DJI Mic), and in the event you ever shoot video on a telephone or a non-DJI motion digicam, I feel the Cell Receiver is an important buy.
For simply $15 / £14, this little gadget makes your wi-fi microphone a lot extra versatile and handy. If there’s even an inkling that you just may discover it helpful, simply seize it. I do not suppose you may remorse it.
As somebody who finds himself capturing increasingly content material for platforms like TikTok and YouTube Shorts, a telephone is the plain device for the job – and this adapter makes my life measurably simpler. I am not exaggerating once I say I’ve spent a whole bunch on digicam equipment that are not half as helpful as this one.
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